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Book Week is celebrated in Week 7. The theme is 'Find your Treasure'. A dress up Day is scheduled for Friday 31 August with a gold coin donation going to help educate girls through the Room To Read charity.

Science Week runs from 11 to 17 August.​Mrs Marrion will be on long service leave for weeks 9 & 10, Term 3, and week 1 Term 4. Relief will be Mr Ian Lindsay for Term 3 and Mrs Bin Salleh for Term 4.

Thank you parents, for encouraging your students to be on time. This is already making a real difference to the start of our day. Please keep up this effort.

Please encourage your child to be at school by 8.40. They miss valuable organising time; tasks that are designed to support mental maths fluency and reading fluency, and time for catching up on work that has not been completed in the set time in class, or because students have been absent. Students arriving late significantly disrupt the teaching and learning in the classroom every day. With so many students going in and out for support or intervention programs, late arrivals (sometimes 9.15 or 9.30am) have been a very disruptive factor in our class.Please read the note on the front of the class that shows how important it is for students to attend school regularly, and to be on time for the critical start of the day. Please help your child be at school no later than 8.45 (one-off events excluded, of course).

As I am trying to listen to students read to me daily, it is important that I have time between 8.30 and 8.50 to work with students. I generally have a number of parents each needing 'a few minutes' every day. As you can appreciate, these 'few minutes' for each parent quickly absorbs the 15 - 20 minutes I allocate for reading to the teacher.

Please use the Homework and Communication book if you need to communicate with me; you can also email me (see right top of page for address). If you have been given my phone number, you are welcome to send me a message (8am-4pm). If you want an update on your child's progress, or to discuss any matters regarding your child's needs, I will need to make an appointment. Thank you for your understanding.Mrs Marrion, 20 May 2018

Students have been learning how to use email to communicate with the teacher if they need help on homework, or with anything they don't understand in relation to work covered in class. We are also using email to access feedback on returned online assignments.

We had a short session using Gmail which is attached to their Landsdale student Google Drive accounts on Thursday 22 March. Correct use of email and respecting privacy, ethical use (right thing to do), correct use of grammar, punctuation and spelling were also discussed. Students were advised that if they do not observe the Digital Citizenship values, and the agreement they made about responsible use of digital technology in the IPromise they signed, as well as the Acceptable Use Agreements also signed by students at the start of the year, they would lose the right to use email, and may have their access to the technology at school suspended for a period determined by the seriousness of any breach.

Please discuss correct and safe use of email with your child in order to reinforce the safe and responsible use of email. This is a school account, it is not to be used for personal email communication.Students have been advised of this and I will continue to reinforce it in class. Mrs Marrion23 March 2018

Naplan online Public Demonstration and Practice site

From Week 7, students will be shown how to go onto the Demonstration site and practice some online Naplan assessments. They will be typing a text in the Writing component. Students can use the Dance Mat typing program from the OTHER, HOMEWORK tabs to practice keyboarding skills. These will be essential for effective participation in the Year 5 online Writing Naplan test, however, Year 3s will complete their writing test on paper in 2018.

What's On in Week 5, Term 3

Monday 13/8/18​​​​​​

Jumps and Throws Year 3 and 4 between 8.45 - 9.45am

Distance events Year 3 and 4: 11.15am

Science Week runs 11 to 17 August - school activities are postponed till later in the year.

After school tutoring continues for selected students Mondays 3 - 4.15pm. Provide some afternoon tea. Collect by 4.30pm.

Homework has been set again in Mathletics - expected that each child will do at least 4-5 per week.

RAZ kids reading homework - students are expected to do at least one text and quiz a week. Students need to log in and read teacher messages too.

ONLINE LEARNING

We have set up, and are increasingly using, our Google Classroom in Google Drive to learn and submit assignments. Students are able to access this from home.

As part of the login process, and notification system, students have been given an email address linked to their Landsdale PS school google classroom. We discussed safe use of email and continue to discuss safe practices when using the internet.

Please have a talk with your student to reinforce these issues. This Thursday, we will return to our Cyber Safety lessons in Health.

For more information, look at the Health tab on this website. Mrs M

NAPLAN IS OVER!

We will commence our 'JOY & DATA' 'agentic' learning program. Students will begin working on real-world, authentic, complex, challenging, collaborative projects with a focus on applying and integrating their Literacy, Numeracy, Science, HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences), Health and Digital Technologies skills to create, publish and implement solutions that make a difference. 'Agency'/agentic' are words used to describe an approach that accepts the challenge of becoming involved in creating/inventing/changing future realities: being an active global citizen and Making ADifference). Ethical, personal, social/humanitarian and environmental responsibilities are cornerstones of our Global Education Projects. So is the application of critical, creative, divergent thinking and dreaming.

If you want to know more about 'Joy and Data', or recent articles on 21st century skills and education, explore the links below.

Parent Information evening held last week on Tuesday 13 February. If you were unable to attend, a copy of the pamphlet was sent home with your child on 14 February. It is also available above to download. ​

If you didn't take an information pamphlet or a letter about Year 3s and access to the Apple 1:1 program, please call in and collect one. Your child can take one home if you can't come in.

I have placed the link to the Landsdale PS website adjacent to this section. Select the ABOUT tab at the top, drop down the menu and select the 1:1 laptop ordering portal for information on this program if you are considering a Macbook for your child.

If you requested an interview, all diagnostic testing will be completed by the end of week 3, and I will be contacting parents who requested an interview to arrange meeting times during weeks 3-5.

​If you would like to nominate for the Parent Link program, but forgot to sign the sheet, you can add your details to the sheet in the classroom.

All students have been given a Homework and Communication book with important information about school priorities and homework expectations. Please use this to let us know about any factors that may impact your child's learning and wellbeing, and also for communication about other matters such as absences.

If you have any queries, you can contact me via email at the address below, or with a note in your child's Homework and Communication book.

Email address: Ella.Marrion@education.wa.edu.au

Important events or reminders for each week will be updated on this page.

HOLIDAY WORK

If you want to practice some Naplan-type papers, check out Studyladder and also Ziptales. In Ziptales, go to the 3-6 Extending Literacy link after logging in. Then scroll down to the bottom right of the page and look for the Naplan-style test link.